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Why are you picking one over the other?

GB is just on a roll right now.  I don't think the Steeler's can stop them either.

I am picking the Steelers mainly as a fan of the team, but truthfully this match up scares me more than the last two Steeler opponents in the SB. The Steeler's defensive weak point is coverage, and Rodgers can move so he could really pick things apart.

Steelers. Big Ben has proven over and over in the past that he won't be denied.

Quote from: thelakelander on January 26, 2011, 02:13:30 PM
Steelers. Big Ben has proven over and over in the past that he won't be denied.

:D

I'm not so many have discounted Pittsburgh in this game. They put together a string of dominance since November... The Packers just had trouble beating the Bears and the 3rd string QB. As much as I hate to say it... I think the Steelers win this one.

The Packer offence was pretty potent to begin with... now they seem to have an emerging star at running back.  I do not think the Steelers will allow GB to run the ball but they will have to respect it and their defense will be influenced by it.

The Packer defense is complete.  They will rush four most of the time... and will put pressure on Ben.  The Steelers will probably be mildly successful running the ball but they better stay out of third and long.  The Steelers may be "Blitzburgh" but GB is pretty damn good at it too... combine that with a secondary that has two Pro Bowlers and two others who could be and I think Ben will have a long day.

Green Bay wins its 13th Championship. :)

Quote from: thelakelander on January 26, 2011, 02:13:30 PM
Steelers. Big Ben has proven over and over in the past that he won't be denied.

nice!

Quote from: thelakelander on January 26, 2011, 02:13:30 PM
Steelers. Big Ben has proven over and over in the past that he won't be denied.

You have been on fire with the Big Ben jokes all season.

The Pittsburgh Who?

The Green Bay What?

WHO CARES?

I'M A JACKSONVILLE JAGUAR FAN!

OCKLAWAHA

Me too... but I have no dilemma until the Jags and Pack play in a Super Bowl!

Quote from: Ocklawaha on January 26, 2011, 07:08:52 PM
The Pittsburgh Who?

The Green Bay What?

WHO CARES?

I'M A JACKSONVILLE JAGUAR FAN!

OCKLAWAHA

+1

It's funny that the Nat'l media will portray this SB as "The dream match up that everybody wanted to see" but I beg to differ; Although of course it will still be very highly sought after. Two "bandwagon type" successful teams that won multiple SB's already doesn't appeal to me. This is the NBA equivalent to the 2010 NBA championship LAL vs Boston, great if you're a fan of either team, not so much if you're not. It has no "fresh" or "underdog" type story ie. Broncos vs Packers, Pats vs Eagles, Pats vs Giants, Saints vs Colts, or Steelers vs Cards. IMO all of the real fun went away when the Jets got beat; They had plenty of fresh storylines, like they haven't won since 69', Rex Ryan's cockiness etc. Either way next year belongs to the Jags!!! :)  

If you are interested in local story lines...

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/

http://packersnews.greenbaypressgazette.com/

http://www.post-gazette.com/steelers/

Quote from: BridgeTroll on January 26, 2011, 07:38:42 PM
Me too... but I have no dilemma until the Jags and Pack play in a Super Bowl!

Actually my superbowl dream match up would be the Jags and the Steelers. That is always an exciting and competitive game. SN: Remember 2007?  :)

^FYI Jags and Steelers are both in the AFC so that can't happen.

However, I have been to every Jag/Steeler game in Jacksonville since the late 90's and was even at the 07 game in Pittsburgh. The Jags are always very tough for the Steelers and its always the most exciting game for me.

Quote from: Lucasjj on January 27, 2011, 09:23:20 AM
^FYI Jags and Steelers are both in the AFC so that can't happen.

However, I have been to every Jag/Steeler game in Jacksonville since the late 90's and was even at the 07 game in Pittsburgh. The Jags are always very tough for the Steelers and its always the most exciting game for me.

That is why it is a dream  :P You know Im a new football fan (kinda) and I have always been confused how the playoffs work. And how a team with a record like the seahawks had can make it to the play-offs. It would be nice if two team in the same division could be play each other in the SB though.


But yes historically, we always bring it to the steelers. HOwever this upcoming season they are to try and knock our blocks off. Its payback time. LOL

Who the hell is Mike McCarthy??

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2010/columns/story?page=hotread20/MikeMcCarthy

QuoteMike McCarthy's a steel man at heart

By Elizabeth Merrill
ESPN.com

PITTSBURGH -- The boy got a Jack Lambert jersey for Christmas. He was 17 when his father loaded up the family, all seven of them, and headed down the hill, along the Monongahela River, to the lights of the city to see the premiere of a Pittsburgh Steelers movie.

He grew up in a neighborhood of winding hills and practical homes where people never leave, never think of it, because it's home. His mother and father were born here, in a blue-collar neighborhood called Greenfield, and that's where they've stayed for nearly seven decades. His Sundays were all about ritual: church, chores and a mass scramble to finish everything by 1 o'clock because that's when the Steelers played.

His loyalty was undying. Everywhere he went, he told stories about how tough the people were in Pittsburgh. When he became a football coach, he fired up his teams this way, with tales from this city. It made them want to destroy their opponents. Made them feel like they could do anything.

In a week, Pittsburgh's native son will be on all of their television screens. Mike McCarthy will run onto the field with his Green Bay Packers, his first appearance in a Super Bowl. And for 60 minutes, McCarthy will plot, improvise and strategize and do everything he can to beat his hometown Steelers.

The men who shaped him

How does it feel to be Mike McCarthy? To be days away from the game he's dreamed about his whole life? To be playing that game against the franchise that made him love football? McCarthy is a football coach, so he'll give you a stock answer about the excitement of being here and his focus on the task at hand.

Perhaps the deeper answers lie here, in Pittsburgh, where two men shaped the first part of Mike McCarthy's life. Joe McCarthy doesn't really want to talk, but he'll budge, eventually, after a couple of phone calls. He is a quiet man who, much like his son, prefers to be left alone to do his work. He was a cop, a firefighter and a bar owner in his younger days, anything to provide for his family. He has lived with his wife, Ellen, in the same house on Greenfield Avenue for 41 years.

If you want to know why Mike McCarthy pulled overnighters back in his days as an NFL assistant in Kansas City, why he offered to work for free in his first coaching job, the answers are found with Joe. He's a no-nonsense Irish Catholic man who taught his five kids to be independent. To make their own way.

Joe flipped houses to supplement the family income, and Ellen was a secretary and worked restaurant jobs. Spare time -- what was left of it -- was spent watching their kids play sports.

"Greenfield was a unique place," Mike McCarthy said. "Pittsburgh was really thriving at that time with the steel industry. There were just kids everywhere. That's really my constant memory of Pittsburgh. Everybody was involved with sports; the professional teams were doing so well.

"It was just a tight-knit community, and you never really left Greenfield very much. It was a big deal to jump on a bus and go to downtown Pittsburgh to see a matinee on Saturday. You never really left Greenfield because you had everything there."

From the tops of the hills, McCarthy could see the Pittsburgh skyline. His dad's bar was down the hill, in an area locals call "The Run." Men from J&L Steel Works would fill Joe McCarthy's bar on weekends, and his kids would clean the place on Sundays after church.

Just about everybody in the neighborhood knows the McCarthys. "Solid family," rolls off the tongues of most residents who are asked to describe them. "Quiet," usually follows that.

"Mike was a pretty happy kid," said JoAnne Klimovich Harrop, a features writer for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review who went to grade school with McCarthy. "He was always smiling a lot. I think that comes from his family."

It is clear they are proud of each of their children. Joe points out that his oldest, Colleen, is a schoolteacher. Seventeen family members made the trip to Chicago to watch the Packers beat the Bears and seal their first Super Bowl trip since 1998.

Since then, it's been a blur of phone calls, adrenaline rushes and mixed allegiances. Joe has a picture on his table. It's of his family at Super Bowl XL in Detroit. They're clutching a Terrible Towel, cheering on the Steelers, who beat Seattle that night.

But now, the Packers come first, the Steelers second. On their door is a scarf that says "Go Pack Go."

"[Sunday], it was all happiness and fun for everyone," Joe said. "And it's still, I think … I'm not totally aware of it. I know they're going to the Super Bowl. My wife and all my children are going to the Super Bowl, and it's an exciting time for our family. Everyone is proud of Mike. We're very proud of him."

But back to Mike McCarthy's other boyhood influence. It's a man he saw on the TV every Sunday. A man named Chuck Noll. There are some who say their coaching styles are similar, right down to their sideline demeanors. Noll, who guided the Steelers to four Super Bowl championships, doesn't get talked about much anymore. Maybe it's because he wasn't animated or demonstrative and didn't put himself out there in the public.

McCarthy, 47, is the same way. He is calm on the sideline, almost expressionless. He rarely gets too high or too low, and he preaches to his players to be steady. He saw Noll do that, too.

"What I always remember about Coach Noll is that he was never the one doing the commercials," McCarthy said. "He wasn't in the limelight. He was clearly about winning championships. I think I have a very similar personality. In today's NFL, a lot more media and more attention are given to everything, but I'd rather stick to the coaching aspect.

"I definitely looked up to him. He was the model. That was the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he represented to everybody the way you're supposed to do it."

The early years

Jim Gregg has been coaching at St. Rosalia School for more than four decades, and he can recite jersey numbers from the 1970s. He's coached kids who have had kids who played for him and moved on. He wears a whistle around his neck almost all of the time. The rope is green and gold. It has the Green Bay Packers' logo on it.

Gregg was a prison deputy warden, but retired when bone cancer wiped out his hip and forced him to walk with a cane. He never had kids. The boys at St. Rosalia are his kids. And because of Mike McCarthy, Jim Gregg will wear Packers gear on Feb. 6 and root against his beloved Steelers.

"I'm so proud to be associated with him," Gregg said. "He's just a good person. He's left the community, but he still remembers where he came from. He's been very generous."

St. Rosalia, which is located, of course, on Greenfield Avenue, resembles a time capsule sealed off in 1973. There is green tile on the walls and a whiff of old books in the air. Children file out of school in uniforms, obediently and in order, just like their parents did.

McCarthy's high school, Bishop Boyle, shuttered in 1987. So this is the coach's one true remaining alma mater in Pittsburgh. He comes back occasionally and can be seen at church with his parents. When the Packers made him their head coach in 2006, he didn't forget St. Rosalia. He had an annual donation to the school drafted into his contract, with an agreement that the Packers would match his pledge.

The gift has helped the school, which has seen enrollment numbers plummet from 600 students during McCarthy's days to 175, stay afloat. For Dara Pegher, it's helped her family. Pegher graduated from St. Rosalia and says the coach's donation made her daughter's tuition bill more affordable. That's what most of McCarthy's gift went to, helping parents send their kids to the school he loves.

On Monday, Pegher, the parent-teachers guild president, stood in the entrance of St. Rosalia, near a picture of McCarthy. She was approached by a priest who joked and asked what color she'd be wearing to mass on Sunday: green or black?

Green, Pegher said.

"You know what? When that game started," Pegher said, "I had tears in my eyes. Because he has worked so hard. And what he's done for this school is a gift unlike any other gift.

"Prayers were answered."

He worked where?

He will be asked about it at least 10 times in the next week or so, during the media blitz leading up to the Super Bowl, and McCarthy will no doubt roll his eyes. He wonders why reporters are so fixated on the fact that he worked at a tollbooth many years ago. Didn't everybody, at some point, have a job like that when they were young?

Well, not exactly. McCarthy didn't just take tickets and toll money at the Allegheny Valley exit on the Pennsylvania turnpike in 1989. He did it in the dead of night, while his twentysomething buddies were drinking and being twentysomethings, while Pittsburgh slept.

At times, before the sun rose over the Alleghenies, there were long moments of dark silence. But McCarthy, a former tight end at Baker University in Kansas, didn't loaf in the roughly 6-by-6 brick booth. He scoured through the playbook of Paul Hackett, his new boss at a new job at the University of Pittsburgh. Then he packed up and left for his daytime gig.

Even then, people knew McCarthy was going places. Quietly, and quickly, he became Hackett's right-hand man. He shared an office with a young man named Chris Petersen in 1992. Petersen, who's now at Boise State, walked into the office the first day and, like most coaches, immediately wanted to figure out what McCarthy was all about. So he asked him.

"I'm going to the NFL," McCarthy told him. "That's going to be my thing."

It made Petersen chuckle a little.

"He and I were kind of the flunkies there," Petersen said. "We were just lucky to be here. He had that look in his eye, and that's what he was going to be. He was so determined and so focused. He was so diligent about learning."

He was so passionate about being a Pittsburgher. He'd talk to Petersen about the culture of the city, the restaurants, the people, and, of course, the football.

There were so many people on those staffs at Pitt who were destined to make it big, guys such as Jon Gruden, Marvin Lewis and Sal Sunseri. McCarthy slipped through as one of the least visible. But the players knew all about him.

One time in practice, he wanted to teach the receivers the proper way to block. So he grabbed a helmet and a pad and took them on, because that was the best way to teach it. He showed up one day violently ill, dripping with sweat. But McCarthy still got all the playbooks handed out, former Pitt quarterback Alex Van Pelt says, because that's what he was supposed to do.

"He was always grinding to make sure he had the best possible answers for everybody to get the job done," Van Pelt said. "I think that reflects a lot back to the roots of his upbringing in Pittsburgh.

"It's the mentality of the area. Even when you're down, you're not out. You play through it. And that's kind of what Pittsburgh as a city has done in the last 20 years. They re-established themselves, they worked through the hard times with the steel mills and really came out on the other side. That's just the mentality of the people."

The team they love, the man they know

Finding Joe McCarthy's old bar at night requires GPS and keen focus. It is located in lower Greenfield, down a row of similar-looking houses. The current owners put up a sign, which helps some. The place is called Chasers in the Run now, but it's not all that different from the old days.

There's a pool table, just like the one Joe's kids used to want to play on when they worked on Sundays. There are Steelers posters on the walls. Downstairs, the ceiling is made of tin. One of the bar's current owners, Robert "Murph" McKeown, heard once that the place used to be a speakeasy in the 1920s. It opens at 8 a.m., like it has for years, and the lunchtime crowd of steelworkers has been replaced by doctors and college students.

But at night, the neighbors and regulars return. A guy named Bob, who's sipping from a pint of beer, has saddled up to this bar for years. Of course he remembers little Mike McCarthy. Somehow, even then, Bob knew that the kid wasn't cut out to be a bartender. Oh, he was organized. He did everything in this bar: poured drinks, cleared tables, swept the floors, cleaned the toilets.

And on Feb. 6, he'll be on the TVs here, and the patrons will awkwardly cheer for two things. The team they love and the man they know.

"Mike's the greatest kid in the world," Bob said. "Put it this way -- if the Steelers weren't in the Super Bowl, I'd want him to win. He deserves it."

Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN.com. She can be reached at merrill2323@hotmail.com.

Is the '07 game against the Steelers the 9-0 shutout by the Jags on MNF?  That was one of the great defensive football games I have ever seen.  It ranks up there with the Jags said a hearty farewell to Dan Marino in the 62-7 ass-whipping.


I would rather see the Steelers win (although I hate them) just to keep the title in the AFC.

Quote from: Jason on January 28, 2011, 04:43:08 PM
Is the '07 game against the Steelers the 9-0 shutout by the Jags on MNF?  That was one of the great defensive football games I have ever seen.  It ranks up there with the Jags said a hearty farewell to Dan Marino in the 62-7 ass-whipping.


I would rather see the Steelers win (although I hate them) just to keep the title in the AFC.

dont even bring up the miami game!!! That was football at its best!!

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BT, please stop flooding the board with your Packer mess!  I find it HIGHLY offensive.


Go JAGS!

 :D ;D

I will be more than happy to help flood the Super Bowl XLVI thread with Jags postings next year!

GO JAGS!  GO PACK!

Would be a dream come true!

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Pretty cool widget for ALL fans...

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_sports/nfl_2010/season_tracker/index.html?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=HOME

Jacksonville took a lot of unnecessary bad press for the inclement weather the week leading up to its Super Bowl.

With the recent ice storm and cold weather coming up in Dallas this week, it will be interesting to see if they get the same media "heat".

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6079827

QuotePack mentality
By Rick Reilly

You root for the Green Bay Packers in this Super Bowl because Steelers fans want their team to win but Packers fans need their team to win. They need it like air.

The football stadium can fit 72 percent of the town inside of it. One in every 54,000 Chicagoans is a Bears' fan, but one in 1,900 Green Bay residents is a Packers' fan. It says "Titletown" on the city seal. The Packers are Green Bay and vice versa. Their very souls are dimpled pigskin.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because Green Bay is the last little town to keep its team. It's right.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because most of the hotels in Green Bay are sold out for the game. Yes, hotels in Green Bay are sold out for a game in Dallas. "I got people from all over the country coming to watch the game at my bar," says Jerry Watson, who owns Stadium View, the biggest tavern in town. "Packers fans just have to watch with other Packers fans. ... Last time we were in a Super Bowl, I came to open up in the morning and I had 1,000 people waiting to get in. At 8 a.m. I turned the lock and ran for it."

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because karma owes Brett Favre a very terrible Sunday for what he did to Packers fans; for what he did to the front office; for all the fake retirement press conferences and fake tears and fake posturing; for dragging Aaron Rodgers' career around through his own muddy whims. Rodgers deserved better and now he deserves this.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because Green Bay is the last little town to keep its team. You want it for Decatur, Ill., which lost its team to Chicago, and Portsmouth, Ohio, which lost its to Detroit, and Pottsville. Pa., which lost its to Boston. You root for the Packers for the same reason you root for Roberto Benigni to win the Oscar or Buster Douglas to win the fight. It's right.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because it's more than just Green Bay's football team. It's the blood in their veins and the asphalt under their tires. They drive down Lombardi Avenue. They speed down Holmgren Way. They park on Reggie White Way. They learn at Vince Lombardi Elementary and daydream of starring at Lambeau Field. And if they lose Sunday, there will be a line to jump off Ray Nitschke Bridge.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl for guys like the one on PackerForum.com writing about hearing his mom shriek downstairs and thinking she's in trouble and running down to find her in her robe and slippers shrieking in delight at the man standing in the doorway, Packers god Bart Starr, who had stopped by to drop off some gifts as thanks for the guy cutting Starr's lawn and shoveling his sidewalk this year.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because being a Steelers fan is a sickness but being a Packers fan is incurable. In Green Bay, Packers gas up where you gas up, pray where you pray, eat where you eat. The players are like family, which means they get yelled at a lot. "That's the thing that's a little different here," says All-Pro Packers linebacker Clay Matthews. "If you mess up here, the lady at the grocery store will let you know."

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because, at the end of it, they're not giving out the Noll Trophy, they're giving out the Lombardi Trophy. Nobody on Broadway is rushing to see the hit play Cowher, but they are rushing to see the hit play Lombardi. (Over the years, though, many have gone to the one about Troy Polamalu: Hair.)

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because Packers fans took a taunt -- "You cheesehead!" -- and turned it into a gouda thing. In 1987, Ralph Bruno, while upholstering his mother's couch in Milwaukee, burned holes into one of the cushions, carved a hole for his head and painted it yellow. Thus, the Cheesehead product line was born. In Green Bay, you can also buy cheese top hats, cheese sombreros, cheese ties, cheese earrings, cheese footballs, cheese bricks, cheese beer cozies, cheese sunglasses, cheese flying discs and, naturally, cheese fezzes.

Do they wear steel beams in Pittsburgh?

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because if the Steelers left Pittsburgh there would still be the Penguins, who won the Stanley Cup in 2009, and the Pirates. True, they stink, but Albert Pujols visits all the time. If the Packers left, Green Bay's major attraction would be the L.H. Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve. But some people would still take Packerland Drive to get there.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because every now and then the game needs to have on top the little team nobody can seem to hate.

You root for the Packers in this Super Bowl because of Ouida Wright and her boyfriend, who never dreamed being homeless in Green Bay would be lucky. They were on the street when the Dallas Convention and Visitor's Bureau sent a "mystery" man out, waiting for someone to address him with the secret phrase: "Have you been to Dallas lately?" Wright heard about it, said it to the right guy and now she's going to the Big Bowl with her boyfriend. Hotel, tickets, flights--everything paid.

Yes, when they come back to Green Bay from watching the Packers play in the Super Bowl, they still won't have anywhere to live.

What's your point?

A female Packers fan had 50-yard-line tickets for the Super Bowl. As she sat down, a man came along and asked if anyone was sitting in the seat next to her.

"No," she said, "the seat is empty."

"This is incredible," said the man. "Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the world, and not use it?"

Somberly, the woman said, "Well, the seat actually belongs to me. I was supposed to come here with my husband, but he passed away. This is the first Packers game we have not been to together since we got married in 1967."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, that's terrible," he said. "But couldn't you find someone else - a friend or relative or even a neighbor to take the seat?"

"No," said the woman, shaking her head. "They're all at the funeral."

Quote from: spuwho on February 02, 2011, 07:55:18 AM
Jacksonville took a lot of unnecessary bad press for the inclement weather the week leading up to its Super Bowl.

With the recent ice storm and cold weather coming up in Dallas this week, it will be interesting to see if they get the same media "heat".


Media Hacks:
"NFL sponsors throwing lavish parties and players who had planned to attend festivities also are being left in the cold. Even the most dreadful city ever to host a Super Bowl â€" Jacksonville â€" looks like paradise in comparison."

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/brutal-conditions-for-super-bowl-should-serve-as-lesson-to-nfl-020411

Quote from: I-10east on January 27, 2011, 12:24:00 AM
IMO all of the real fun went away when the Jets got beat; They had plenty of fresh storylines, like they haven't won since 69', Rex Ryan's cockiness etc.

I agree. I haven't watched a lick of anything SB related since the AFC championship game ended. The media is trying but they don't have anything to write about for 2 straight weeks about this SB except for the weather. Honestly, I can't remember when is the last time I had less interest in a SB prior to this year.

This was shown to the Packers team last night...  :)

http://www.youtube.com/v/K8DHrLq9-qw

Quote from: 02roadking on February 05, 2011, 09:54:12 AM

Quote from: spuwho on February 02, 2011, 07:55:18 AM
Jacksonville took a lot of unnecessary bad press for the inclement weather the week leading up to its Super Bowl.

With the recent ice storm and cold weather coming up in Dallas this week, it will be interesting to see if they get the same media "heat".


Media Hacks:
"NFL sponsors throwing lavish parties and players who had planned to attend festivities also are being left in the cold. Even the most dreadful city ever to host a Super Bowl â€" Jacksonville â€" looks like paradise in comparison."

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/brutal-conditions-for-super-bowl-should-serve-as-lesson-to-nfl-020411

Dallas has had an ice storm on top of 5-8 inches of snow on top of a taxi strike on top of hundreds of cancelled and delayed flights on top of rolling blackouts on top of temps in the teens on top of injuries due to ice falling off of Cowboys Stadium on top of parties and events being cancelled and this could go on and on and yet they are still considering Dallas as a future contender for SuperBowls simply because the stadium can fit 100,000 people.  Well news flash, the cheapest tickets for the SuperBowl this year dropped from $3500 to $2000 and many people won't even make it to the Superbowl, so is it still the money maker they are promising?

The Superbowl is only going to "new stadium" preferably indoor stadium cities now, which rules out CA and FL (well I guess LA will be getting the new $800M Farmer's Field).

I guarantee you that Dallas will still be a contender because it is the home of the Cowboys and it has some big NFL commission head honchos.  I guarantee you New Orleans will still be in the running even though the Superdome is the crappiest stadium ever because it's politically correct to have it in NOLA.  Even though they say it won't be in CA or S FL until new stadiums are built, I guarantee you that there will be Superbowls in those areas because the NFL guys and the media love those areas.  The cold weather experiment will not last.

The Falcons have been in serious talks to build a new stadium for the past year, and I bet that this episode in Dallas will spur those talks into action pretty soon.  LA has a $700M commitment for a new stadium already.  I'm sure there are other cities that are discussing new stadiums as well and I hope we don't become one of them.  The Jaguars (or any team for that matter) are not worth $500M+ to the taxpayers.

Bottom line: Dallas isn't really getting much heat even though it should!  The NFL has turned into a purely political machine bent on making money, all to the unfortunate cost to the fans/taxpayers.  Let's see what happens in Indy next year.  Wonderful NOLA will get it in 2013 and New York will be another blizzard filled Superbowl in 2014.

"I guarantee you New Orleans will still be in the running even though the Superdome is the crappiest stadium ever because it's politically correct to have it in NOLA"

Went to a saints game this year, the superdome is a hellhole.  Maybe I'm spoiled but the worse stadium I've been in since the old orange bowl, the old tampa stadium was better.

Quote from: thelakelander on January 26, 2011, 02:13:30 PM
Steelers. Big Ben has proven over and over in the past that he won't be denied.

LMAO! Love me a good double entendre

Go Pack Go Pack. Steeler fans here in Jax you can put away your flags.

It's always a good thing when Jax-area Steeler fans are humbled. Just like in 07' with the Garrard run.

It gets worse for Dallas...

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/06/nfl-400-fans-will-be-denied-seats/

World Champion... GREEN BAY PACKERS!

13th... 4 SB's  :)

http://packersnews.greenbaypressgazette.com/


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Are you really sure that was Slash... Looked like an animatronic figure to me.  I friend of mine tweeted that Axl Rose probably drove his 89 Honda Accord off a cliff after that performance last night.

Quote from: danno on February 07, 2011, 03:29:59 PM
Are you really sure that was Slash... Looked like an animatronic figure to me.  I friend of mine tweeted that Axl Rose probably drove his 89 Honda Accord off a cliff after that performance last night.

I was just impressed that Polamalu had time during halftime to perform with the Blackeyed Peas... ;D

Wow, someone finally stood up to Big Ben and avoided getting locked in the bar restroom with him.  Congrats Green Bay.